International Day of People With Disability

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About International Day of People with Disability

International Day of People with Disability (IDPwD), is held on 3 December annually. Internationally, the day is celebrated, raises awareness of people with disability and promotes the equitable inclusion of people with disability in all aspects of life.

It’s the perfect opportunity for your organisation to demonstrate their commitment to disability inclusion.

If you are a member, consider how you can promote the work you do both internally and externally. If you are not a member now is the perfect time to launch your organisations commitment to disability inclusion.

How your organisation can get involved

There are many ways your organisation can celebrate the day. Whether it’s an event, launching changes or promoting the work you have been doing throughout the year.

For more ideas and tools for your organisation to get involved, download our International Day of People with Disability workplace kit.

Learning opportunities: webinars

Join us for a free webinar to help develop your skills and become more disability confident:

Barriers and enablers to workplace adjustments

In this webinar, we went through the barriers and enablers to requesting and receiving workplace adjustments across the employee life cycle.

Our Research Lead, Dr. Catherine Maitland, presented the preliminary results of the Workplace Adjustments research that we have undertaken.

Our Project Manager, Peta Magick, spoke about the newly released How to Guides, which support organisations to implement and achieve disability employment targets. The four guides cover:

  • capturing disability employment data
  • offering and implementing Workplace Adjustments
  • inclusive Recruitment Practices and Building a Disability Confident Culture

To access the guides please contact our memberexperienceteam@AusDN.org.au

Watch the Barriers and enablers to workplace adjustments webinar

Disability confidence through dignified design

Hear from Tom Bevan, Dignified Access Lead and Hayley Brooks, Customer and Employee Experience Lead as they share insights on the concepts of dignified access and co-design, highlighting the importance of embedding accessibility into all stages of the design of products, services and environments.

Dignified Access and co-design go beyond compliance with Australian Standards to provide safe, dignified and equitable access, whilst taking into consideration the user experience from the perspectives of locomotion, vision, reach and stretch, dexterity, thinking, communicating and hearing.

Watch the Disability confidence through dignified design webinar

Resources to help you raise awareness

We created a range of resources to help your organisation have a better understanding of this globally celebrated day, and help you spread awareness on disability inclusion.

Digital Banners

IDPwD Posters

Social Media Tiles

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Square Assets

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